The Blowfly posed the question "When will Gillard finally snap?" in a post in early April. Yesterday The Blowfly had goose-bumps as he listened to the PM. She had finally done it. She let Abbott have his just desserts. This post is published again simply to provoke reflection on the present stae of politics in Australia.
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Early April 2012
The Blowfly has often pondered the delicate line that Tony Abbott is treading in his pursuit of Julia Gillard.
Admittedly it is a difficult tightrope and most mere males would struggle with it!
But consider this!
Most women I have known in my time have a point somewhere in their psyche that draws an invisible line in the sand.
They cannot be pushed beyond that line!
Once there they simply decide that no man will get the better of them.
At some stage, and real soon, Julia is going to reach that point.
This may occur in a number of ways.
One possibility is that she will conclude that she will lose the next election and that she may as well leave her mark on Australian society.
She will then pull out the really big guns and go for broke.
Abbott won’t know what hit him.
She, for instance, could decide to back a couple of the really exciting new technologies that are lurking around that have the capacity to revolutionize our economy AND REPEAL THE CARBON TAX.
At the same time she could make herself a real saviour of the working classes and DOUBLE THE MINING TAX.
This would allow her to make a significant cut in company taxes and thereby reduce the impact of the mining sector’s vibrancy on the Australian manufacturing sector.
Another possibility is that she will simply determine that Abbott is the last thing she wants to inflict on Australians and she will set out to undermine him----but in a female kind of way!
She will do him slowly! Over a barbecue.
For instance she might start wearing a smart frock rather than the suits.
She will use her feminine wiles to side-swipe him and make Malcolm Turnbull look good.
She might even find a way to make Joe Hockey appear to be a talented economist.
And slowly she will whittle him away.
To nothing!
She did it with Kevin Rudd! And she can do it again.
More ‘Bob Carr’ moments!
No budgie-smugglers or scare tactics will save him then. Not even George Pell or Gerard Henderson will be able to save him. Nor Janette Howard!
The ultimate weather vane will have disappeared forever.
Someone else will have to run up the flag for political hypocrisy.
Showing posts with label Abbott wooing women voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abbott wooing women voters. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Abbott's paradoxical approach to wooing women voters!
The Blowfly is enjoying watching the Opposition leader’s attempts to woo women voters.
Firstly we have the parental paid leave scheme. At a time when Tony Abbott is denying a company tax reduction to companies he is introducing a parental paid leave scheme which is likely to be a bigger impost on businesses.
But he needs the female vote!
And now we have the possibility of taxpayer-funded subsidies for baby-sitting!
It is apparently one of his ‘aspirational’ policy initiatives that he would like to get on the table to show how caring he is about working women.
Whether it gets implemented will depend on what the Productivity Commission reports and whether the Government can afford it.
But in the meantime he continues to play the ‘bully boy’ and be quite aggressive with our first female Prime Minister. As do other members of the Opposition! Christopher Pyne particularly!
If Tony Abbott cannot see the paradox of this then we should review our understanding and perceptions of his capacity to lead our nation.
Because what it means is that he will resort to symbolic gestures to deal with sections of our community rather than reflecting on his core approach and adjusting it to their real needs.
In this case, women want to see that he is consistently attuned to their value as human beings.
You don’t demonstrate that by saying that the PM ‘has a target on her head’.
The Blowfly can only imagine how my mother would've regarded that comment!
The Blowfly would've been dead-meat.
Firstly we have the parental paid leave scheme. At a time when Tony Abbott is denying a company tax reduction to companies he is introducing a parental paid leave scheme which is likely to be a bigger impost on businesses.
But he needs the female vote!
And now we have the possibility of taxpayer-funded subsidies for baby-sitting!
It is apparently one of his ‘aspirational’ policy initiatives that he would like to get on the table to show how caring he is about working women.
Whether it gets implemented will depend on what the Productivity Commission reports and whether the Government can afford it.
But in the meantime he continues to play the ‘bully boy’ and be quite aggressive with our first female Prime Minister. As do other members of the Opposition! Christopher Pyne particularly!
If Tony Abbott cannot see the paradox of this then we should review our understanding and perceptions of his capacity to lead our nation.
Because what it means is that he will resort to symbolic gestures to deal with sections of our community rather than reflecting on his core approach and adjusting it to their real needs.
In this case, women want to see that he is consistently attuned to their value as human beings.
You don’t demonstrate that by saying that the PM ‘has a target on her head’.
The Blowfly can only imagine how my mother would've regarded that comment!
The Blowfly would've been dead-meat.
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